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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3001650" data-attributes="member: 158">Players can, and do, get it wrong, mostly in their favor. Sometimes I can't tell if the player gets it wrong intentionally, or honestly. Players who can tell me the rules, both when they run against them and when they run for them, are worth their weight in diamond. Fortunately , I have two at the table. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I try to reduce the amount of clutter at the table, and this includes open books. Since I can't afford to photocopy each and every monster page I'm using, I copy the stats down ahead of time. Sometimes, I miss a stat that might not be important, but it turns out to be. I used a purple worm a few months back, and fortunately, I knew he was big enough to swallow everyone present, so I didn't worry about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But even if I did have the books open and bookmarked to EVERY monster I use in an encounter (and sometimes I use 5 different types!) it takes valuable seconds every time I have to look something up, whether it's armor class, switch over to scrap paper to track hit points, a special ability, or even if he has the combat reflexes feat. TO prep, I write as much as I can keep track of in a single row table to reference. I'm still constantly experimenting with smaller and easier shorthand, trying to hit the magic format that works for me. Keeping track of a purple worm is easy; keeping track of an Ak'chazzar Rakshasa is a MOTHER-LOVING PAIN IN THE REAR, no matter what format.Who watches the watchers? The DM, whom people seem to feel very unwilling to trust. What makes the players any better to trust than the DM, if people are unwilling to trust him?Yet, you have to have that out, crap mechanics or not.</blockquote>

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